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January release team status report draft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Feb 11 06:37:14 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:37:03 -0500
Message-Id: <200302111137.GAA19825@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Here is my belated attempt at a January status report. It may have
some pieces slightly wrong or missing due to a mistake on my part (I
lost a draft Bill produced before he left, so I had to go back to last
month's report), but I think it should be fine. I'll send it out
later today.
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Team Name: Athena UNIX Platform Team
Team Leader: Bill Cattey
Report Date: 11 February 2003
Submitted by: Greg Hudson
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
Accomplishments past period:
Last Month's goals:
ONGOING: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1.
PROGRESS: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
PROGRESS: Complete integration of GNOME 2 and Evolution upgrades.
DONE: Updated email documentation with Mozilla mail configuration.
DONE: Evaluate disconnected operation deployment and identify what still
needs to be done.
DONE: Deploy IAP patch release with local lockers framework, disconnected
operation framework, OpenAFS upgrade, Solaris security and kernel
fixes, and Evolution startup fix.
DONE: Produce document, "Differences between Athena Linux and stock Red
Hat Linux".
DONE: Put Mozilla 1.2.1 for Solaris, and Linux with MIT configuration
into the infoagents locker for testing. Add SGI version.
DONE: Codify X server understandings into plans for Athena release,
announced level of laptop functionality, and recommendations
to IBM.
Community Milestones Met:
DONE: Testing of Mozilla 1.2.1, and setting it as default.
DONE: Deploy IAP patch release.
Other Accomplishments:
* Integrated new versions of bash, OpenSSL, perl, gcc, and OpenSSH
for the next full release.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Further testing and bug fixing of Athena 9.1.
OLD: Work on Athena Solaris RPM stuff.
OLD: Complete integration of GNOME 2 and Evolution upgrades.
NEW: Develop fast DNS timeout for disconnected operation.
NEW: Develop friendly way to go on/off net or switch interfaces.
NEW: Develop Disconnected Athena documentation.
NEW: Investigate workaround for VMWare problem (see "Issues").
NEW: Integrate new version of Pine for next full release.
NEW: Integrate new version of openssh for next full release.
NEW: Make installs of SMP Linux machines work properly.
NEW: Develop IMAP-based "from" command to improve new message count at
login.
NEW: Integrate Mozilla into Athena source tree.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Update Linux installer to support multi-processor machines.
Issues:
VMWare does not get along with the latest Red Hat Linux kernels.
Although we don't support VMWare, some of our customers use it. We
advised users to delay taking the latest patch release if they use
VMWare. We recently learned of a possible workaround and are
investigating it.
The process of building Athena for Solaris now takes 21 hours on the
current build machine, due to the high volume of GNOME 2 source and a
newer, slower (but otherwise improved) gcc. Long build times slow
down integration work.
We don't seem to have thought through the process of creating a local
home directory for machines running disconnected. This will make it
difficult to write documentation.
Summary: About the same as last month.
Additional comments:
Athena Monthly machine counts:
(I don't have these, sorry.)
